Back=Eo 
Studies 
Society 



1898-9 



EVANSTON, ILL. 



THE BACK- LOT STUDIES SOCIETY, 



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OFFICERS— 1898-9: 



Herbert F. Fisk, - 
Arthur H. Wilde, 
Wm. G. Alexander, 
Volney W. Foster, 



President. 
Vice-President. 
Secretary. 
Treasurer. 



Advisory Committee 



Thomas Bates. 
Frank P. Crandon. 
D. B. Dewey. 
Gharles F. Grey. 
N. C. Gridley. 



Rev. N. D. Hills. 
Charles G. Neely. 
J. H. Raymond. 
C H. Remy. 
T. K. Webster. 




II. F. I ISK, 



BACK- LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 



Books, hazuever, were the least part of the education of an Athenian Citizen. 

— Macaulay. 

The Back-Lot Studies Society was organized in February, 1891, 
the outgrowth of a suggestion of Volney W. Foster. Its pur- 
pose is to give, yearly, a series of talks by business and professional 
men upon practical subjects to a company of young men ranging in 
age from sixteen to twenty -five years. Great pains are taken to 
have these addresses of such a nature as to aid these young men in 
the choice of a life-work as well as to give a general fund of infor- 
mation. The membership is limited to sixty- five — this being all 
that the meeting-place will accomodate — chosen for the most part 
from the students of the high -school and the academy of North- 
western University; these members are selected on the basis of 
general ability to profit by the work of the Society which requires 
close attention and an intelligent interest on their part. In short 
it is to give instruction and not merely amusement. No formal 
constitution and by-laws are used, every means being used to keep 
the meetings and transactions of the Society as simple as possible. 
The two points of punctuality and regularity in attendance are 
vigorously insisted upon, however, and the absence of a member 
from two consecutive meetings justifies a notice from the secretary 
that if absent from the next meeting the name will be dropped 
from the roll of the Society. There are no dues, the expense being 
met by Mr. Foster. 

The meetings are held once a fortnight, as a rule in the "Shelter/' 
a building located upon a small park in the rear of Mr. Foster's 
residence and locally known as the "Back-Lot." Hence the name 
of the Society. 

Public lectures are given from time to time in what is known 
as the "Back-Lot Lecture Course." These are held in the churches 
of the city which are placed at the disposal of the Society. 

From the very first, the general public has manifested an appre- 
ciation of the need for which the Society was organized and has 
responded to any request that has been made upon it. Public 
men in Evanston and Chicago of most intimate connection with both 
business and professional affairs, have freely offered their influence, 
time, and knowledge, in furthering the work. 

Besides the regular evening talks, through the cooperation of 
different gentlemen, excursions to points of general interest have 
been successfully carried out. 

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6 BACK- LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 

In June, 1893, Charles F. Grey gave the Society a three -days 
outing. During this trip, the members visited the State Prison, 
the Iron-Mills, and Quarries at Joliet; Deer Park, and Starved Rock 
in La Salle County; and the Glass, Tile, and Pottery-works and the 
Organ factory in Ottawa. 

In October of 1894, through Mr. Foster, the Society visited 
Romeo to inspect the work there in progress upon the Drainage 
Canal. 

In November of the same year, by the courtesy of Charles T. Boyn- 
ton, the manager of the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Com- 
pany, the Society visited the company's works in Waukegan. May 
15, 1897, the Society, at the invitation of Charles Deering, visited 
the Deering Harvester Works in Chicago. June 5, 1897, A. C. 
Bird, general traffic manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. 
Paul Railroad system, took the members by special cars to visit 
their shops at Milwaukee. A. W. Wright of Chicago in 1893, 
presented beautiful gold badges to the members of the Society. 

It is the feeling of the founder as well as the present officers 
that the idea should not be confined to Evanston in its practical 
workings. It would seem to fill a great demand in towns and 
cities of five hundred to five thousand people, in the fact that 
the young men are brought into direct contact with successful 
men in all lines of business at an age when the hard struggle of 
making a decision of life's work is at hand. Each town possesses 
a number of men capable and willing to talk on the different 
lines in which their own lives have been cast. It is to be hoped 
that the Evanston Back- Lot Society is but a forerunner of other 
"Back-Lot "' organizations. If further information is desired, any 
communications may be addressed to the Secretary of the Society 
at Evanston, or copies of this prospectus may be obtained from 
the same person and suggestions to those contemplating organiz- 
ing such societies will be gladly given. 

The speakers for each year together with a list of those persons 
who have served as officers and those who have been enrolled as 
members of the society will be found in the pages which follow. 

H. L. Boltwood, principal of the Evanston High -School, was 
the first President and to his untiring efforts was due the success- 
ful beginning and continuance of the Society up to 1896, when 
other duties compelled him to consign the affairs of the organi- 
zation to other hands. Dr. H. F. Fisk, principal of the Academy 
of Northwestern University followed him as President. 

As Vice-Presidents, there have been H. H. Kingslev and A. 
H. Wilde. 

As Secretary and general manager of the meetings, Walter N. 
Johnson, Herbert S. Smith, Arthur H. Wilde, and William G. Alex- 
ander have served. 

Volney W. Foster has always served as Treasurer and has col- 
lected the dues from himself. 




H. L. BOI.TWOOD. 



back -lot studies society. 7 

Speakers, 1891: 

Nelson C. Gridley. Patent Lawyer. "Inventors and Inventions." 
H. L. Boltwood. "Reminiscences of the Sanitary Commission." 
Rev. Wm. H. Smith.* "School-Life in Scotland." 
Henry M. Kidder. "Game Fish of North America." 
John J. Orchard, Banker. "Banks and Banking -Laws." 
James H. Raymond. "The Locomotive and its Workings." 
Geo. W. Hotchkiss. "A Trip through British America and Alaska.' 
Oliver Marcy, Prof. N. W. U. "Geology." 
Gen. J. L. Beveridge. "Battle of Gettysburg," with maps of his 

own making. 
Hon. C. G. Neely. "Criminals and Criminal Law." 
Capt. J. R. Fitch. "War Reminiscenses." 
A. V. E. Young, Prof. Chemistry N. W. U. "Combustion." 
Col. Louis H. Ayme. "Ruins of Mexico and Yucatan." 
H. L. Boltwood. "The Whale and Whale -Fishing. 
D. Ostrander. "Success in Life." 
Orange Judd,* Publisher Prairie Farmer. "Great Men I Have 

Known." 
Prof. Henry H. Heinemann. "Teutonic Mythology." 
Col. Robert Hill. "Gold Mining in Montana." 
John M. Hubbard.* "Washington Life at the time of Civil War." 
Richard Robbins. "Experiences as a Private in the Army of 

the Potomac." 
Ossian Guthrie. "Glacial Geology of Cook County." 
Thomas Bates. "Experiences with Gen. Sully in the Far West." 
Rev. Wm. H. Smith.* "Robert Burns." 
H. L. Boltwood. "New-England Boyhood." 
Dorr A. Kimball, Credit man with Marshall Field & Co. "Credits." 
Rudolph C. Jacobson. "The Tanning of Leather." 
H. H. Kingsley. "The English Constitution." 
Wolf Von Schierbrand, Sec'y to U. S. Consul to Persia. "Life 

in Persia." 

Dr. M. C. Bragdon. "A Trip Around the World." 
Major Malcolm McDowell, Iron Manufacturer. "Iron." 
J. K. Boyesen. "Norway." 

Speakers, 1892: 

Dr. W. F. Poole,* Librarian Newberry Library. "Books." 
M. E. Dixon. "Newspapers and Political Reporting." 

* Deceased. 



8 BACK-LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 

A. J. McCormick. "The Evolution of the Reaper." 

John W. Burdsal. "Tea." 

Lieut. A. S. Frost. "Military Tactics." 

H. L. Boltwood. "The Men who Made America." 

George Reynolds. "Trip to South Africa and the Diamond Mines." 

Wm. A. Hammond,* Banker. "The Silver Question." 

M. Kennard Mitting, Chemist. "Glycerine and its connection 

with High Explosives." 
Geo. W. Hough, Prof. Astronomy N. W. U. "The Solar System." 
Fleming H. Revell. "Travels in Norway and Sweden." 
Capt. A. L. Huggins. "Seal- Fisheries in Behring Sea." 
Henry L. Tolman. "The Microscope and its Use." 
H. L. Boltwood. "Plant-Life." 
Chas. E. Davis. "A New Type -Setting Machine." 
F. A. Hardy, Optician. "The Optical Business." 
Dr. Henry B. Hemenway. "Practice of Medicine." 
Rev. Arthur W. Little. "Battles in the Sky and how we won them." 
H. L. Boltwood. "Scotland." 
J. M. Barnes. "Manufacture of Paper." 
Hon. Geo. S. Baker. "Land-Titles." 
Rev. J. F. Loba. "Social Life in France." 

Wm. Dickinson, Chicago Board of Trade. "Corn and its Prod- 
ucts." 
Hon. Wm. Prentiss. "Evidence." 



Speakers, 1893: 

Geo. F. Stone, Secretary Chicago Board Trade. "Board of Trade." 

Geo. P. Merrick. "Civil Law." 

Presentation of Pins to the members of the two Societies by 

A. W. Wright, of Chicago. 
Dorr A. Kimball. "Reminiscences of Europe." 
Horace F. Brown. "The Extraction of Gold and Silver from Ore." 
H. W. Rogers, President N. W. U. "Criminal Law." 
H. L. Boltwood. "Preparation tor the World's Fair." 
Dr. A. H. Parker, Specialist. "Hernia." 

Prof. J. G. Gross. "History and Development of Shorthand." 
Dr. Chas. G. Fuller, Oculist and Aurist. "How we See and 

Hear." 
J. H. Gray, Prof. N. W. U. "Social Life in Germany." 
John J. Flinn, Associated Press. "Newspapers." 

* Deceased. 



BACK-LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 9 

Mr. Mitchell, of London, Eng. "The London Polytechnic 

School." 
Francis Greely. "Government Surveying." 

Capt. W. N. Brainard.* "Gold- Hunting in California."' 

C. W. Hillman. "Express Business." 

Frank R. Grover, City Attorney. "Special Assessments." 

L. E. Cooley, Engineer. "Chicago Drainage Canal." 

H. L. Boltwood. "Calico- Printing." 

George R. Jenkins. "Oils." 

William H. French. "The Work of the Associated Press." 

Robert Baird, Prof. N. W. U. "Olympia and the Olympic 

Games." 
Alexander Hesler.* "Photography." 

Speakers, 1894: 

Eugene S. Cox. "The Organization of the Militia." 

Edward C. Carter. "The Organization of a Railroad." 

L. D. Henderson. "Dentistry and Care of the Teeth. 

Dr. L. D. Phillips. "The Lungs of Vertebrates." 

L. E. Hildreth. "Fire Insurance." 

George G. Wilcox. "The Craft of the Woodsman." 

William Rice. "Marble and the Marble Business." 

Thomas F. Johnson, England. "The Drainage Canal." 

Hon. H. B. Hurd. "The Transmission of Property." 

C. M. Remy. "National Bankrupt -Law." 

F. H. Revell. "Travels in Europe and Africa." 

E. H. Buehler. "Products of Coal Tar in Medicine." 

Judge R. M. Wing. "Criminal Law." 

Frank Gould. "Manufacturers and Dealers (Woodenware)." 

Thomas Hawks, England. "Landscape Gardening." 

A. N. Gage. "Taxes." 

Warren J. Ewing. "Use of Steel in Architecture." 

George E. Gooch. "Duties of Foreign-Born American Citizens." 

Dr. Richard H. Kimball. 

Dr. F. Henrotin. "Horse- Sense in Medicine. 

* Deceased. 



BACK-LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 



Names of the Members up to the Close of the Year, 1894: 



J. Belden Adams. 
George Armsby. 
Royce Armstrong. 
Malcolm Baird. 
Horace Baker. 
Charles Bartlett. 
Charles Borton. 
Eugene Baskin. 
Arthur Beebe. 
Charles Beebe. 
Ralph C. Bennett. 
Walter Blake. 
Harry Bond. 
John G. Burdsal. 
Lucius H. Bugbee. 
Merritt C. Butler. 
Ralph Butler. 
William Campbell. 
Fred Candee. 
F"rank Chase. 
Marshall Clark. 
Elton A. Chatterton. 
Warner Coburn. 
David Cook. 
Frank Childs. 
Paul Cleveland. 
Wallace Condict. 
William O. Connor. 
Harry Congdon. 
Charles Cragin. 
Charles Culver. 
Robert Coble. 
Merritt Craven. 
Frank Crippen. 
Lemuel Costikyan. 
Horace Capron. 
Jesse Dart. 
Robert De Golyer. 
James Dewey. 
Ralph Durham. 
Robert Durham. 
George Dunham. 
William R. Duthie.* 
Stewart Edwards. 
Ernest Eversz. 
Jerry Eldridge. 
Herman Elich. 
Frank Fletcher. 
George Foster. 
Albert Volney Foster. 
Sidney Foote. 
*Deceased. 



John Foster. 
Edwin S. Fry. 
Leon Graves. 
Paul Graves. 
Howard Gray. 
Milton Flail. 
Harold Hessler. 
D wight Harding. 
Bert Hitchcock. 
Ralph Hayden. 
Dana Hunt. 
Frank Huse. 
Martin Hansen. 
Arthur Ide. 
Corban Judd. 
George Judson. 
Walter Johnston. 
Walter Johnson. 
Harlow Kimball. 
Frank Kimbark. 
Jay Kirkman. 
George Lawrence. 
William Lea. 
Ralph Lewis. 
Frank Long. 
Sam Merwin. 
George Miller. 
Harry Millar. 
Emil Morhardt. 
George V. H. Moseley. 
Albert Munson. 
Hugh McCaleb. 
William A. McCormick. 
Howard McConnell. 
Clifton McFarland. 
Ralph McKinnie. 
Henry Morris. 
John C. Mulford. 
Fred Munsell. 
Wilbert Munsell. 
George Northup. 
Joseph O'Connell. 
Homer Onderdonk. 
Freeman Price. 
Arthur Powers. 
Walter Powers. 
Carleton Pendleton. 
Edwards F. Raymond. 
John Redington. 
Paul Redington. 
Fred Reimers. 



Arthur H. Rudd. 
Fred Roberts. 
Paul R. Siberts. 
Albert -Sanders. 
Alfred C. Sewall. 
Fred Shaw. 
Claude Stevens. 
Lucian E. Smith. 
Mills Smith. 
Robert Short. 
Charles Stewart. 
William Sweetman. 
Caro M. Stewart. 
Percy Siddall. 
Frank Singleton. 
George Swan. 
Oliver Scudder. 
Theodore Scudder. 
Charles Scripps. 
Fred Stokes. 
Thomas Tallmadge. 
Samuel Topliff. 
Tohn W. Thompson. 
Clark Tillinghast. 
Jennings Vandaveer. 
Don Wasson. 
Emory Ward. 
Fred H. Wilson. 
T. Herbert Wilkinson. 
Otto Wehrstedt. 
Fred Wilder. 
Arthur Whitely. 
J. Chester Woodley. 
Charles Wiswall. 
G. Xorris Woodley. 
James Waite. 
Walter Wilson. 
Fred C. Walker. 
Edwin Walker. 
Frank Watson. 
Henry K. Webster. 
Raymond Willis. 
David Williams. 
Albert Weston. 
William Whitehead. 
Fred Wing. 
William Wyckoff. 
Harry Wyman. * 
J. Ralph Wilbur. 
Paul Youno\* 



Records for 1895-6 (Missing). 




A. H. WILDE. 



BACK-LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 



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OFFICERS FOR 1896-7: 



Dr. H. F. Fisk, President. 



Volney W. Foster, Treasurer. 



A. H. Wilde, Secretary. 
Speakers, 1896-7: 
D. A. Kimball. "Credits." 

J. H. Raymond. "Advantages of a Liberal Education." 
Fleming H. Revell. "Mediterranean Tour." 
N. G. Iglehart. "Freight- Bureaus." 
Rev. H. P. Smyth. "Duties of a Citizen." 
Rev. A. W. Little. "The Planet Mars." 
D. H. Burnham. "The South-Shore Drive." 
F. H. Lewis. "Manufacture and Sale of Leather." 
John W. Burdsall. "Tea-Culture and Commerce." 
Thomas Bates. "With Sully in the West." 
Dr. A. H. Parker. "Hernia." 
Mr. Gilson. "Patent -Law. 

During this year occurred the trips of the Society to the Deer- 
ing Harvester Works and to the shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee 
and St. Paul Railroad. Under the patronage of Mr. Foster, a lecture 
on "Gladstone" was given by Edwin Latchford of Chicago who 
had had a personal acquaintance with Mr. Gladstone. 



W. H. Abbott. 
A. W. Anderson. 
J. P. Armstrong. 
Clyde F. Arnold. 
Geo. E. Bahrenburg. 
Harry A. Barbour. 
John Barnes. 
A. W. Barnlund. 
Geo. W. Bemis. 
Carl Bent. 
Carroll L. Billings. 
Frederick Bindhammer. 
Arthur J. Bowen. 
Arthur W. Campbell. 
J. H. Carnelley. 
Geo. H. Cater. 
Albert W. Chase. 
Charles P. Chester. 
E. A. Chipperfield. * 
R. T. Cookingham. 
Ezra S. Corrie. 
Roy A. Corrie. 
Harold Y. Currie. 
Edmiston Darragh. 
Don W. Deal. 
W. M. Drury. 
Wm. Falloon. 
Clark H. Fellingham. 



Members, 1896-7 

Wm. J. Forster. 
Eugene Frey. 
F. Graunstadt. 
E. J. Hamner. 
R. H. Hanna. 
R. B. Harper. 
Karl E. Hendrickson. 
Harold M. Hess. 
Frank L. Hubbard. 
Wm. Hutchings. 
Walter C. Jones. 
Wm. H. Jones. 
Raymond Kaufman. 
J. E. Keltner. 
W. G. Kenney. 
Herbert Kester. 
Arthur S. Killam. 
Harlow M. Kimball. 
James S. King. 
Alfred D. Langlois.* 
Denny R. Lemen. 
Benjamin D. Lemery. 
Harry Frank Little. 
W. H. Livermore. 
Jesse Matteson. 
R. D. Matteson. 
John W. McClintock. 
Phillip Matthei. 



G. L. McDougal. 
Carey E. Melville. 
Harvey R. Merrill. 
Shirley P. Miller. 
Louis F. Nans. 
Nicholas J. O'Connell. 
E. E. Olp. 
T. E. Olson. 
Harper Osborn. 
Leonard Pease. 
John M. Phar. 
David B. Pierson. 
L. F. Pooler. 
R. A. Porter. 
Fred Rossitcr. 
Otto Ryden. 
T. Percy Siddall. 
David K. Smith. 
Herbert C. Smith. 
Roy Tindall. 
Julius Trefz. 
Benjamin Trotter. 
Charles Waltenbaugh. 
E. D. White. 
James Wigginton, Jr. 
John Wolff. 

* Deceased. 



BACK-LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 



OFFICERS FOR 1897-8 



Herbert F. Fisk, M.D., President. Arthur II . Wilde, Vice-President. 
Volney W. Foster, Treasurer. William G. Alexander, Secretary. 

Speakers, 1897-8: 

H. L. Boltwood. "Work of the Sanitary Commission During 

the War. 
Harvey B. Hurd. "Transmission of Property." 
E. P. Smith. "Precious Stones and Their Cutting." 
Alexander Clark. "Why North-Shore Villages and Cities should 
combine under a Park District Law, and How it can be Done." 
J. H. Van Vlissingen. "Real Estate." 
Rev. H. P. Smyth. "The Human Mind." 
Prof. G. W. Hough. "An Evening in Dearborn Observatory." 
Charles Almy. "A Three- Years Cruise on a Man- of- War. 
Judge Charles G. Neeley. "Our Constitution aud How It was 

Made." 
Col. J. W. Thompson. "Sherman's March to the Sea." 
Richard Linthicum. "Glimpses of the Old and New West." 
Joseph Mann. "The Courts." 

Season Thompson. "A Personal View of Eugene Field." 
Dr. John Boyd. 
H. H. C. Miller. "Municipal Corporations." 

The following have promised to speak but no dates have been 
fixed: 

Prof. PIenry Crew. "Photography in the Sciences." 

William Handy. "The Greatest Country in the World." 

Frank Grover. "Special Assessments." 

Prof. Luther Caldwell, Prof, in Sociology, N. W r . N. 

Dr. G. E. Whitfield. "Improvements in Dental Surgery." 



In the "Back- Lot Lecture -Course" in which the lectures are 
public, John W. Postgate of Chicago spoke on the theme "The 
Topers and Tipplers of Shakespeare," and Rev. N. D. Hill is of 
Chicago, gave his address on "John Ruskin." This lecture-course 
is free to the public. 




W. G. ALEXANDER. 



BACK-LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 



A. W. Anderson. 
George Brown. 
George Burchell. 
Harry Barbour. 
William Bray. 
George Bahrenbnrg. 
Edward Burge. 
David Bradley. 
J. A. Baker. 
George H. Cater. 
Peter Clemensen. 
Roy A. Corrie. 
Harold Y. Currie. 
Everitt Ettinger. 
S. B. Edmondson. 
W. H. Fnlloon. 
Eugene Fry. 
W. J. Forster. 
Lawrens Gerritsen. 
Hazel Groves. 
A. E. George. 
Silas Hardy. 



Members, 1897-8 

Herbert Hansen. 
Wm. Hutchings, 
Floid Harnden. 
Harold M. Hess. 
Rush Hess. 
Warren Hussey. 
Fred Hinchliff. 
William Jones. 
Joseph E Keltner. 
Arthur Knox. 
Manard Kuter. 
James Kline. 
Harlow Kimball. 
J. A. Lemery. 
B. D. Lemery. 
J. E. Langlois. 
Clarence Luther. 
Wilfred E. Lane. 
Carey Melville. 
George A. Moore. 
Joseph McCallum. 
Howard Noyes. 



Hans Nelson. 
Ernest E. Olp. 
Nicholas J. O'Connell. 
Archie Orsbon. 
David Pierson. 
Thomas Prather. 
Richard Prindle. 
Walter Roloff. 
Otto Ryden. 
Charles Sabin. 
H. G. Schroeder. 
Herbert C. Smith. 
David Smith. 
John P. Stewart. 
J. P. Siddall. 
Wm. Turner. 
Julius Trefz. 
Carelton Vail. 
Fred Wright. 
Orris Wood. 
John Walsh. 
Towner Webster. 



A Visit from Sioux Indians. 

On February 14, 1891, by favor of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Mr. 
Foster secured a visit to the Society from the Sioux Indians, who 
were held as prisoners of war at Fort Sheridan. There were fifteen 
of them who had either been captured in the battle of Wounded 
Knee, or had surrendered after the battle. Three of the party were 
squaws. An interpreter accompanied them. Lieut. M. Campbell, 
of the I. N. C. O. was in charge, and six armed privates escorted the 
company. Prof. Boltwood went up to Fort Sheridan with an order 
from General Miles, and the party, after some delay, until the ladies 
were dressed to their mind, left Fort Sheridan about one o'clock. 
In consequence of the delay, they were obliged to hurry to catch the 
train, and one of the ladies prespired so freely that the paint upon 
her face was sadly streaked before reaching the train. 

The ladies were known as Mrs. Call -the -name, Mrs. Medicine 
Horse, and Mrs. Crow- can. Among the braves were Short Bull, 
Kicking Bear, Scatters, One Bull, Horn Eagle, Know-his-voice, 
Run -along -side, and Sorrel Horse. 

The party was expected, and on their arrival at the Kvanston sta- 
tion, fully two thousand people, large and small, were assembled to 
see them, besides the swarms of children, scores of carriages were 
collected, and as the procession moved down Maple Avenue toward 



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the Back -Lot Shelter, there were hundreds of youths running along- 
side, and carriages by the dozen moving back and forth along the 
line. Lawns and fences were all too little respected by the eagar 
throng. The Indians marched in their accustomed file, each looking 
straight ahead, and hardly seeming to notice the spectators. Short 
Bull, however, did once free his mind to the interpreter, and declared 
solemnly to him that these white children could not be born in the 
ordinary way, and asked if they were not hatched out in broods. 

On arriving at the Shelter, the boys were introduced to the dis- 
tinguished guests. At the request of Mr. Boltwood, One Bull gave 
a talk in the sign language, telling something of their journey after 
the battle to the train which took them to the fort. There was also 
an exhibition of Indian dancing, neither graceful nor energetic. 

Then the guests were fed. Sandwiches, doughnuts, and coffee 
were dealt out to them in profusion, and they ate as if they were 
laying in stores for a long campaign. They refused nothing, and if 
the boys served them faster than they could eat, they filled their 
handkerchiefs with the excess. Their long experience with govern- 
ment rations had evidently make them very receptive. 

From the Shelter the party was next escorted to the gymnasium 
of the Y. M. C. A., where the visitors Avere entertained with various 
athletic exercises on the rings and parallel bars. These exercises 
seemed very much to the taste of the visitors and called forth some- 
thing like applause. 

The next visit was to the Evanston Club, where they met many 
of the members, and were again fed. As there had been about an 
hour and a half since their reception at the Shelter, their appetites 
were in good working order, and their "storage capacity" excited 
some remark. At five o'clock the party returned to Fort Sheridan, 
and it is safe to say, that no event in the history of Evanston ever 
stirred up "Young America'' more thoroughly than this visit of the 
Sioux. 



GIRLS' BACK- LOT SOCIETY. 



The success which attended the boys' Back- Lot project caused a 
like organization for girls to be formed in January, 1892. It held 
most successful meetings for two years when the Society was allowed 
to lapse. The meetings were in the Shelter on Friday afternoons 
after school. The majority of the members were High- School girls. 

officers, 1892: 

H. L. Boltwood, President. 

Mrs. Emma W. Rogers, n 

Mrs. L. F. Cragin, I Vice-Presidents. 

Mrs. Katherine Moore, J 

Miss Mabel Warner, Secretary. 

Volney W. Foster, Treasurer. 

Speakers, 1892: 

Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert. " Some of Our Festival 
Days and why we celebrated them." 

Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulick. " Spain." 

Prof. H. L. Boltwood. "Woman's Work in the Sanitary Commission." 
Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller. "The King's Family." 
Miss Sarah E. Wheeler. "Trip through Italy." 
Miss Jane H. White. "My Visit to Germany." 
Prof. C. B. Atwell. "Paupers and Suicides among Plants." 
Miss Lizzie Stone. "Russia." 
Miss Laura Jane Addams. "The Hull House." 
Miss Alice Blanchard. "Mexico." 
Mrs. Donaldson. "Life of Margaret Fuller." 
Miss Mary McDowell. "Real People and Life at the Hull House." 
Mrs. Lydia M. Tallmadge. "The Castle Homes of England." 
Miss Belle S. Currey. "The Telephone." 
Mrs. Louise B.. Stanwood. "Ideal Womanhood." 
Mrs. Emma Winner Rogers. 

Mrs. Anna S. Elliot. "The Bayreuth Wagner Festival." 
Mrs. Susan Bradley. "The Oberammergau Festival." 

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BACK-LOT STUDIES SOCIETY. 



Miss Emma C. Sickles. 

Mrs. Elizabeth W. Bragdon. 

Miss Emma Neuschafer. 

Mrs. Mary Norton. 

Mrs. L. A. Washburne. "Australian Life.' 



MEMBERS, 



>92 



Alice Aiken. 
Minnie Alabaster. 
Emma Ailing. 
Hattie Bassett. 
Jennie Bowman. 
Grace Burch. 
Bertha Bliss. 
Kittie Buehler. 
Annette Buttler. 
Grace Brown. 
Anna Belden. 
Ethel Burnham. 
Fannie Candee. 
Mary Candee. 
Grace Cole. 
Louise Culver. 
Delphia Culver. 
Anstiss Church. 
Jennie Craven. 
Edith Cleveland. 
Florence Capron. 
Alice Cragin. 
Elizabeth Davis. 
Mae Doland. 
Gertrude Drury. 
Nellie Durham. 
Pauline Dwight. 



Jessie Everz. 
Burd Finney. 
Minnie Garrison. 
Maude Garnsey. 
Cora Hill. 
Florence Hotchkiss. 
Hattie Joy. 
Katie Joy. 
Leo Kimball. 
Retta Kimball. 
Margaret Leahy. 
Mae Lamberson. 
Eda Lord. 
Elizabeth Lee. 
Maude Moore. 
Eva Moore. 
Terressa Metcalf. 
Sadie McConnell. 
Frances Poole. 
Bird Panushka. 
Miriam Prindle. 
Mary Robinson. 
Lillian Russell. 
Bessie Redfield. 
Edith Shuman. 
Mae Lieber. 
Theresa Stokes. 



Ruth Tillinghast. 
Grace Tolman. 
Anna Thomas. 
Edna Watson. 
Frances Williams. 
Irene Williams. 
Jessie Ward. 
Edith Ward. 
Franc Walker. 
Olive Wells. 
Mabel Warner. 
Linda Clatworty. 
Hattie Fitch. 
Lillie Garnsey. 
Edna Hall. 
Cornelia Holabird. 
Esther Magill. 
Gertrude McFarland. 
Louisa Mitchell. 
Lillian Siler. 
Florence Warner. 
Henrietta Webster. 
Tessa Williams. 
Maia Winchell. 
Hattie Williams. 



For the Society, 

Wm. G. Alexander, Secretary. 



Back -Lot, Evanston, 111. 

January, 1898. 



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